Comment Submitted by Bret Evan Moran, The Ohio State University

After careful study of the proposed rule by the Department of Homeland Security in Docket DHS-2011-0103 I fully understand its need in the implementation of a credit and debit transaction system for the Customs and Border protection arm of the department. As a concerned citizen who has used credit to pay this department for a US passport I also see its troubling propositions as it threatens to eliminate privacy standards that its enabling legislation, The privacy Act of 1974, has established. I believe that information acquired in this proposed system should not be shared with any of the number of agencies and organizations this rule plans to allow for. It is a further intrusion into personal freedoms establish by the US Bill of Rights. It only furthers the unconstitutional abuse of power by the DHS that has been set forth from the creation of the Patriot Act onward. Without this gross threat to privacy the rule is sound and I see its benefit to aid the flow of trade and transaction in our ports and border crossings.